On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:25:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO measurement_y' || to_char(NEW.logdate,'YYYY_mMM') || ' VALUES (NEW.*)';
>
> That won't actually work. Even if it did, I don't think we should be
> recommending use of EXECUTE here; the performance implications are bad.
I think it's still worthy as an example. Not all partitioning systems
need a high insert rate. And even if it does, that tends to be CPU-work;
if you're partitioning you're likely IO-bound and not CPU-bound.
Has anyone measured the performance difference?
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